[Peace] Excellent letter to the NG, just saw it this morning.

[David Green]

Today's edition of news from Neptune elaborates on my critique so I highly
recommend it.

On Fri, Aug 2, 2019, 11:10 AM John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 2, 2019 at 8:08 AM David Johnson via Peace <
> peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> Great letter David !
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>> David J.
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> Yes, it really is.  Thank you for passing it on, Karen, to those of us who
> don't get the News-Gazette.
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> John W.
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>> *From:* Peace [mailto:peace-bounces at lists.chambana.net] *On Behalf Of *Karen
>> Aram via Peace
>> *Sent:* Friday, August 02, 2019 6:53 AM
>> *To:* David Green
>> *Cc:* Peace
>> *Subject:* [Peace] Excellent letter to the NG, just saw it this morning.
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>> Over four decades, the globalized, financialized, high-tech economy has
>> stagnated the incomes of over half of Americans, immiserating many, while
>> making a mockery of social mobility amidst obscene accumulations of private
>> wealth.
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>> Consistent with this have been perpetual and ongoing “low-intensity” wars
>> for economic domination, increased threat of nuclear war and
>> species-threatening carbon-driven climate change, the latter exacerbated by
>> all the above.
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>> But these issues are too big to worry about, no less seriously address,
>> and they might damage our fragile patriotic self-esteem, while distracting
>> us from sports.
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>> Moreover, these problems can’t be laid at the doorsteps of Illinois state
>> government, youthful local thugs or “Chicago pols.”
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>> That’s no fun for News-Gazette editors as they lay out the next chapter
>> in our local morality play, in which good must inevitably triumph over
>> evil, unless it’s a football Saturday.
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>> But never fear, the STEM academic community has got this; that is,
>> they’ve got the game-changing Discovery Partners Institute to lead us into
>> the digital, artificially intelligent promised land.
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>> Who needs a decent health care delivery system when we’ve got gadgets in
>> an imaginary research pipeline? Who needs a decent standard of living and
>> adequate housing when we’ve got visualization and “big data”? And what
>> self-respecting University of Illinois professor or administrator doesn’t
>> want to be hyped to high-tech heaven by ever-ebullient
>> journalist/publicist/stenographer Julie Wurth?
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>> Surely, the Golden Age is within us and upon us, if we just clap for
>> Tinkerbell, charge our smartphones and refuse to grow old.
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>> DAVID GREEN
>>
>> Champaign
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